Plaintiffs have two years from the death of their loved ones to bring survival actions alleging medical professional negligence, even if the injuries caused by the alleged negligence didn’t lead to death, the Pennsylvania Superior Court has ruled.

In a nonprecedential July 17 opinion in Bradley v. Thomas Jefferson Health System, a three-judge panel of the court relied on the state Supreme Court’s 2017 ruling in Dubose v. Quinlan, which held that the statute of repose in the Medical Care Availability and Reduction of Error Act established a two-year statute of limitations for medical professional liability cases in the form of wrongful death or survival actions, accruing at the time of the decedent’s death.

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